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Perpetual Student of AI, Neuroscience 🧠, Math, and History
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Nov 9, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: super excited - You.com launches 🚀 today!! So glad @RichardSocher & the team dare to reimagine search engine!! I’ve been using beta for a couple of months and can’t go back to google or other search engines any more. Amazing UI/UX, and crypto-native: 1) If you code, it has build-in AI-empowered auto code-completion: 2)
May 2, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
This is brilliant. What’s your answer? Image Hint: for these who chose 0%, effectively you had 25% chance to get it right. But if you choose 25%, it’d become 50% chance, then you choose 50%, effectively it becomes 25% again. It’s a paradox. We could argue about this for years 😅
Dec 31, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
New year eve again. Here is my 2020 book dump.

An unusual year, a humbling year. So much unknown and so much to learn. I’m thankful for the wisdom and insights from the great books I’ve read this year. Here are some highlights. (THREAD) 1/ History books:

The Anarchy by @DalrympleWill (abt East Indian Co. - astonishing)

The Great Influenza by John Barry (DYK Spanish Flu likely started in Dallas, but Sedition Act in the US at the time made publishing negative news a crime?) 2/
Sep 17, 2018 12 tweets 7 min read
It’s 9am. Still windy, but #TyphoonManghkut has passed. Since my THEAD yesterday abt the typhoon went viral, I now would like to show how amazing this city is: efficient, undeterred, hardworking, resilient. Fellow HKers pls feel free to add to this thread! #HKSpirit People lining up for bus to go to work 12 hours after the worst storm in the world this year hit this city. #HKSpirit
Sep 16, 2018 25 tweets 16 min read
Starting a thread of various videos today in HK and Shenzhen as the world’s strongest storm #TyphoonManghkut wiping our cities. (Videos are not mine but collected from messages doing the rounds w WhatsApp and WeChat) Someone’s apartment in the east side of HK
Sep 4, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
@katherineykwu I get into such arguments with westerners routinely as well, most of them have not spent much time in China at all. @naval is very insightful but on this argument he’s flawed. China now has 1bn smartphone users. For many startups to spread their innovations - 1/ To the province next door w same language & similar markets makes more commercial sense than going overseas. Most of the western innovations are originated in a much smaller market so to spread beyond national boundaries is inate and needed. 2/